A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

God gave the day, God gave the strength.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.